Apple may be testing an M3 Mac Mini

Apple may have a Mac Mini powered by its new M3 chip within the works for 2024, in keeping with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On e-newsletter in the present day. Gurman says Apple is now testing a pc at its campus beneath mannequin identifier Mac 15,12, however whether or not it is a Mac Mini is his hypothesis.

Gurman says the corporate is testing an eight-core CPU and a 10-core GPU Mac with 24GB RAM that’s working macOS Sonoma 14.1. These specs are much like the bottom mannequin M2 Mac Mini, aside from the reminiscence put in — thus far, entry-level Apple silicon Macs have began at 8GB RAM. (I wouldn’t learn something into that although; it will be very shocking if Apple jumped to 24GB for the bottom mannequin.)

Gurman factors out that in Apple’s earnings call, the corporate stated it anticipated a double-digit decline in Mac income within the fourth quarter of this 12 months, and Gurman reiterates that he doesn’t count on any M3-powered Macs to come back earlier than the primary fiscal quarter of 2024 begins in October.

That brings the overall anticipated M3 Macs as much as six and covers the entire firm’s main desktops and laptops, together with the iMac, which is anticipated to see its first refresh since 2021 soon. Unsurprisingly, Gurman doesn’t but appear to count on M3 variations of the Mac Studio and Mac Professional, each of which solely made the leap to Apple’s M2 silicon this year at WWDC. When you haven’t but, take a look at our evaluations for the 2023 Mac Studio and 2023 Mac Pro.